Nancy Sebring abruptly resigned as Des Moines school superintendent on May 10, explaining that she needed time to prepare for her new job in Omaha. (It was supposed to start July 1.) The day earlier, school board leaders confronted her about sexually explicit emails that were discovered by school district employees reviewing a May 7 records request filed by the Omaha World Herald’s Jonathon Braden.

Nancy Sebring

The Des Moines Register reports Sebring tried to get rid of the emails after the school board found out about them, and “she also called Braden and persuaded him to revise his records request in such a way that it did not include the personal messages.” (My boldfacing here.)